what gives with

[Darren Dale]

On Jan 22, 10:07 pm, Benjamin Peterson <benja... at python.org> wrote:
> Darren Dale <dsdale24 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Judging fromhttp://bugs.python.org/issue2400, this issue
> > was fixed back in May 2008, but it is still present with python-2.5.4,
> > which was released in December. Why wont python-2.5 allow this kind of
> > import?
>
> Allowing that would be a new feature which is disallowed in bug fix releases
> like 2.5.4.

I was talking about the behavior after doing "from __future__ import
absolute_import". I've been developing on python-2.6 using
absolute_import for weeks, knowing that I could do "from __future__
import absolute import" on python-2.5. Now when I try to use
python-2.5 I cant import my package. What is the point of providing
absolute_import in __future__ if the api is completely different than
the implementation in future python versions? Its bizarre.